The Civil War and Opiate “Insanity”
Bondurant Hall Room 2020Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture: Jonathan S. Jones, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Binghamton In the decades after the Civil War, the United States faced an epidemic of opiate addiction among Civil War veterans. Americans widely feared that opiate addiction among traumatized veterans was linked to the Civil War, and was dangerously … Read more